What have you learned from your audience feedback?

During the production of our movie we asked for feedback on what we had done so far. We got feedback which informed us on how to improve our film as well as letting us know about what we done well. This can be seen in our ‘construction’ part of our blog.

Post-Production After we finished the production of our media products we wanted to know what our audience liked about it, what they weren’t to keen on and what we could improve on. We posted our film on Facebook so that we can get feedback on it from a variety of people. Facebook was a good way to get the feedback as it is a social media site that is used on a daily basis. This way we could also reach out to more than one group of people. The majority of the audience are within our target audience of 15+The genre of the film was identified by the audience which meant that we followed the codes and conventions of a horror/ parody well enough to recognize the genre.

We also asked for things that we can improve on (constructive criticism) so that if we were to do it again then we could improve the production of the media film.

The different camera angles were pointed out quite a lot which the audience thought was good, we were really pleased about that.

I got a comment on the story line. It was suggested that the attacker should’ve died as a plot twist as its not expected.

Uses and Gratification theory performs one of the following: Educate, Identify, Entertain or Social Interaction. Through the Uses and Gratification Theory I believe that the audience get entertainment and humour from our film. This theory asks ‘what does the media to people’ instead of ‘what do people do with the media’. Some individuals watch films and integrate the narrative or the storyline to their own lives and see how the characters would deal with certain things.

I am pleased with the feedback we received from the group of people within our target audience who we showed our video to. The majority of the comments were really positive.

I feel that through the process of receiving feedback on our film we have learned a lot about how to make videos in the future and what are the main aspects in film. The main thing that I have learned is that during the research and planning stage you should know in your head how you want your video to look like and techniques you will use to achieve this look (including things like lighting and camera movements) but what you need to consider is how the audience will read the media text and how they will perceive it.